23-573: Bute Street may refer to: Bute Street, Cardiff Bute Street, Hong Kong [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bute_Street&oldid=840560675 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
46-797: A dramatic fall in exports. By 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression which followed the General Strike in 1926, coal exports had fallen to below 5 million tonnes and dozens of locally owned ships were laid-up. Despite intense activity at the port during the Second World War (which led to the attentions of the German Luftwaffe during the Cardiff Blitz ), coal exports continued to decline, finally ceasing in 1964. In 1950, imports outstripped exports for
69-520: A main road in and out of the docks area and it was completed in 1830. Bute Street used to be part of the A470 road , up until Lloyd George Avenue was opened on 4 October 2000, it is now an unclassified road. The £25 million Mermaid Quay shopping and leisure complex was opened in 1999, it was built on the site of the former Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum , which was opened in 1977 but closed in 1998 to make way for Mermaid Quay. Cory’s Building
92-454: Is a 5 storey grade II listed building situated at the corner of Bute Place and Bute Street. It was built in 1889 and it was built for Cory Brothers & Co. Ltd. The brothers were John Cory (1828–1910) and Richard Cory (1830–1914). The business included ship's chandlery, brokerage and the sale and export of coal. The company also owned several collieries in Wales. The brothers also became
115-660: Is a Grade II* Listed building, and was built for the historic Taff Vale Railway (TVR) in 1843 and extended in 1860. It was from near this site that the very first train in South Wales ran in October 1840, when the TVR opened the line to Abercynon. Around 1870, the TVR set up its Bute Road headquarters. The station was central to the coal export trade. In 1920, Bute Docks , the TVR and the Cardiff Railway were sold to
138-450: Is a port in southern Cardiff , Wales . At its peak, the port was one of the largest dock systems in the world with a total quayage of almost 7 mi (11 km). Once the main port for the export of South Wales coal , the Port of Cardiff remains active in the import and export of containers, steel, forest products and dry and liquid bulks. Following the development of the coal found in
161-517: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bute Street, Cardiff Bute Street ( Welsh : Stryd Biwt ) is a street in Cardiff , Wales . It links Cardiff Bay (previously Tiger Bay ) and Butetown with Cardiff city centre . It now has no road number. It runs from the dockside of the Mermaid Quay complex in the south, which
184-553: Is now a pedestrian zone , to the junction of Bute Terrace (A4160) in the north. What is today Bute Street was previously mostly meadow and marshland called Soudrey, the Cardiff south moors. The 2nd Marquess of Bute realised in the 1820s that the Glamorganshire Canal was not sufficient to cope with the demands of the iron trade and initiated a development plan. This plan included the construction of Bute Street as
207-546: The Cynon Valley , Rhondda Valley, and Merthyr areas of South Wales, the export of both coal and iron products required a sea connection to the Bristol Channel if economic volumes of product were to be extracted. In 1794, the Glamorganshire Canal was completed, linking the then small town of Cardiff with Merthyr, and in 1798 a basin was built, connecting the canal to the sea. By the 1830s, Cardiff became
230-781: The Great Western Railway , and for a short time made it the busiest and most important rail system in the world. St. Mary the Virgin and St. Stephen the Martyr is a grade II listed building and was built in 1843. Built in 1874 for Cory Bros coal exporters, the building was later converted to a bank and was occupied by Midland Bank and later HSBC . As of 2022, it has been converted into residential apartments. 51°28′15″N 3°10′10″W / 51.4707°N 3.1694°W / 51.4707; -3.1694 Cardiff Docks Cardiff Docks ( Welsh : Dociau Caerdydd )
253-831: The East Bute Dock with water extracted from the River Taff at Blackweir in Maindy , and now supplies the Roath Dock. It is largely an open canal through central Cardiff, other than a culvert between the New Theatre and the Cardiff International Arena . Frustration at the lack of development at Cardiff led to rival docks being opened at Penarth in 1865 and Barry, Wales in 1889. These developments eventually spurred Cardiff into action, with
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#1732794100007276-697: The docks. Its headquarters were a currently derelict building in Cardiff Bay railway station . The building was turned into a railway heritage centre in 1979 by the Butetown Historic Railway Society. By 1994 the Society had started to run steam locomotive hauled passenger services up and down 550 yards of track. However, as the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation had no interest in the railway,
299-480: The first time in the port's history. The 1970s saw a short-term import boom, and in the 1980s the port experienced a slight rise in traffic, while much of the former port area began to be regenerated into non-port uses. The port found a niche as an important local centre for general cargo operations. Cardiff now has three operational docks capable of handling ships of up to 35,000 tons deadweight : Queen Alexandra Dock, Roath Dock and Roath Basin. Although still owned by
322-599: The largest private wagon-owners in the United Kingdom, with over 5,000 wagons. In July 2018 it was announced that the building is to be redeveloped into apartments and shops by Skyview Estates, who will receive loans of £6m to fund the work, of which £5m will be provided by the Development Bank of Wales and £1m by the Welsh Government's Town Centre Loans fund. The Cardiff Bay Railway Station
345-411: The name "Tiger Bay" was used in popular literature and slang (especially that of sailors) to denote any dock or seaside neighbourhood which shared a similar notoriety for danger. The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was created in 1987 to counter the effects of economic depression in this run-down area. Today, the port of Cardiff and what is now known as Cardiff Bay has been totally transformed by
368-563: The opening of the Roath Dock in 1887, and the Queen Alexandra Dock in 1907. By then, coal exports from the South Wales Coalfield via Cardiff totalled nearly 9 million tons per annum, much of it exported in the holds of locally owned tramp steamers . By 1913, this had risen to 10,700,000 tons, making Cardiff second only to Barry, Wales as the largest coal exporting dock in the world. Cardiff's first steamship
391-452: The port, Roath Basin is now only used as a hospitality berth , and is only accessible by vessels via Roath Dock. The port has transit sheds with nearly 40,000 m (430,000 sq ft) of indoor storage plus 22.9 ha (57 acres) of open storage. There are 7 quayside cranes plus a range of mobile cranes. Cardiff's specialised facilities include a distribution terminal and chill and cold storage for perishables. Tiger Bay
414-594: The port. After the First World War , there was a boom in shipping in Cardiff, with 122 shipping companies in existence in 1920. The boom proved short-lived, however; oil was growing in importance as a maritime fuel, and the terms of the Treaty of Versailles soon flooded Europe with cheap German reparation coal. The Taff Vale Railway was built to transport coal from the South Wales Valleys to
437-429: The pre-eminent iron-exporting port, shipping almost half of British overseas iron exports; between 1840 and 1870, the volume of coal exports increased from 44,350 to 2.219 million tonnes. Increasing agitation for proper dock facilities led Cardiff's foremost landowner, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute , to promote the construction of the (West) Bute Dock. The dock design was by Admiral William Henry Smyth and
460-593: The resident engineer was George Turnbull . Two years after the October 1839 dock opening, the Taff Vale Railway was opened, following much the same route as the canal. With the construction of the new East Bute Dock from 1855, designed by James Walker of Messrs. Walker & Burges and built by Thomas Cubitt 's firm, its opening in 1859 resulted in coal supplanting iron as the industrial foundation of South Wales , with exports reaching 2 million tons as early as 1862. The Bute Docks Feeder supplied
483-464: The society changed its name to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway and moved from the site in 1997 to Barry Island railway station . From 1910 onwards capacity issues meant that the more modern and less tidal Barry Docks took over as the largest volume export point of coal. Until the early 1920s, Cardiff docks continued to boom as a location for shipping companies, but the fall in demand for Welsh coal caused
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#1732794100007506-412: Was a local nickname for the general Cardiff Docks area, the evocative phrase deriving from the area's rough-and-tumble reputation. Merchant seamen arrived in Cardiff from all over the world, only staying for as long as it took to discharge and reload their ships: consequently many murders and lesser crimes went unsolved and unpunished, the perpetrators having sailed for other ports. In Victorian times,
529-573: Was the Llandaff of 1865, and by 1910, there were some 250 tramp steamers owned at Cardiff, by prominent firms such as William Cory & Son , Morel, Evan Thomas Radcliffe , Tatem and Reardon-Smith. Each day, the principals of these companies would meet to arrange cargoes of coal for their ships in the opulent Coal Exchange in Mount Stuart Square . This trade reached its pinnacle in 1913, when 10.7 million tons of coal were exported from
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